And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.